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Inside Iraq Blog - Times Online - WBLG - Aug 27, 2008
Embarrassing doesn’t come close to what happened yesterday. It was at the Baghdad wedding of one of my Iraqi staff to a young woman. The party was great, live Arabic music, lots of clapping and laughing, bride and …
Inside Iraq Blog - Times Online - WBLG - Aug 15, 2008
The tell-tale signs of being a Brit in Iraq are rarely more apparent than when embedded with American soldiers. Phrases such as: “Please may I borrow your torch?” or: “Where’s the loo?” draw puzzled expressions on US …
Also tagged: culture, us british military
Inside Iraq Blog - Times Online - WBLG - Aug 5, 2008
A university student in Basra, Eman Ali said her life was hell during the past few years when gangs of militiamen ruled her city, forcing everyone to obey a set of strict religious codes. She, like most people in this …
Also tagged: politics, religion, insurgency, us british military
Inside Iraq Blog - Times Online - WBLG - Jul 31, 2008
A multiple suicide bombing by three women failed to dampen the spirits of about one million people in Baghdad this week who flocked to a revered shrine in the north of the capital for the climax of a major religious …
Also tagged: history, religion, culture, insurgency
Inside Iraq Blog - Times Online - WBLG - Jul 20, 2008
It is just before midday and swelteringly hot in Baghdad. I am standing outside the blast walls that surround the British Embassy, out of breath and dripping in sweat, having spent the morning chasing around the Green …
Also tagged: politics, insurgency, us british military
Inside Iraq Blog - Times Online - WBLG - Jul 16, 2008
My fixer was just tucking into his main course of lamb kebabs at a posh restaurant in central Baghdad when a commotion outside caught his attention. Curiosity aroused, he went to the front door in time to see scores of …
Inside Iraq Blog - Times Online - WBLG - Jun 13, 2008
Face creased with concern, the former Iraqi interpreter sits on a cheap-looking sofa in a rented flat in Amman as his two young children play on the floor and his pregnant wife rests in the bedroom. “We are worried …
Also tagged: politics, insurgency, us british military
Inside Iraq Blog - Times Online - WBLG - Jun 5, 2008
In an instant, 18 mounds of professionally buried explosives blew apart a revered golden dome in Samarra. They also obliterated the walls, covered in hand-painted porcelain tiles, that surround the shrine and took out …
Also tagged: politics, history, religion, culture, insurgency, us british military
Inside Iraq Blog - Times Online - WBLG - Jun 3, 2008
I was outnumbered 20 to one in what has been called the most dangerous city in Iraq. Terrified and isolated in a small wooden hut on the top of a patrol base in Samarra, I grabbed the only weapon to hand, a flip-flop …
Also tagged: insurgency, us british military
Inside Iraq Blog - Times Online - WBLG - May 22, 2008
For an embed set up to investigate a new breed of Iraqi female guard it was a complete disaster. But fortunately, thanks to an amusing helicopter crew and some friendly soldiers on the ground, the trip was not an utter …
Also tagged: culture, insurgency, us british military